Re: ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library

     Oh, I've seen that one also... came from where we were running short
     on scratch tapes and I was running short on time so I checked out some
     volumes and checked in some scratch vols... it went to recycle a vol
     in the library that had a data set span across to one of the vols I
     checked out. When it called for the mount and couldn't get the tape it
     marked it unavailable and then restarted the recycle process and call
     for the mount of the unavailable tape again, and again....
     later
          Dwight



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Subject: Re: ANR8447E No drives are currently available in library
Author:  ADSM-L at unix,mime/dd.RFC-822=ADSM-L\@VM\.MARIST\.EDU
Date:    7/7/96 6:37 AM


What Dwight was writing reminded me of another cute (?) problem that I saw a
few weeks ago:

We had a tape (vol A) being reclaimed, with one file spanning on another volume
(Vol B). for some reasons, Vol B was marked as unavailable. Reclamation of Vol
A
started, but was interrupted with error messages when ADSM discovered that it
needed Vol B to continue. ADSM aborted the reclaim process,... and rescheduled
it one minute later. One minute later, Vol A was asked again, ADSM discovered
that it needed vol B that was not available, aborted the process, and
rescheduled it one minute later. One minute later,... etc, etc, etc.

It carried on like that for a whole night.

I had a good laugh the next morning. (Luckily we are not in production... yet.)

As anybody seen anything similar ?

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